Between them, Wyoming and Texas have 34 Minuteman III ICBMs and about 100 warheads (plus 20,000 plutonium cores from retired warheads stored at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo). What would happen to these if secession actually happened? rawstory.com/republicans-se…
ICBMs can't be relocated and moving 20,000 plutonium cores anywhere else would be a logistical and security nightmare, if not altogether impractical. Plus, Pantex is the only US facility for assembling, disassembling, and maintaining nuclear bombs and warheads.
In fact, In fact, except for 44 ICBMs in Colorado and 72 in Nebraska, all US land-based and air-based nuclear weapons are in solid "red" states: Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, and North Dakota have 600 warheads/bombs, 300 Minuteman III ICBMs, 200 ALCMs, 46 B-52Hs, and 20 B-2As.
Should secession occur, the United States would still retain (for now) 14 Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines homeported in the "blue" states of Georgia and Washington, capable of carrying (for now) a total of 280 Trident II D5/LE SLBMs armed with 1,120-1,400 warheads.
As for the rest, our primary nuclear R&D laboratories are in California and New Mexico and our mothballed test site is in Nevada (all "blue" states), our stockpile of highly enriched uranium and thermonuclear secondaries is in Tennessee ("red"), our tritium boost gas is made ...
in Tennessee and extracted and loaded into reservoirs in South Carolina ("red"), and the non-nuclear components of our nuclear weapons are manufactured in Missouri ("red").
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